The Goofiest EVANGELION Merchandise You Can Imagine

Once again, I find it terribly amusing that a series so infamously
defined by its violent, nihilistic existentialism continues to be the source of
such a plethora of merch.

Surely, you haven’t forgotten the earlier reports of
an EVANGELION 3.0 smartphone and its tie-ins to a busy Japanese airport? Well,
as it would naturally follow, AVN says that the store devoted to all things EVA in Tokyo just recently announced that they’ll be putting the gnostic, mecha Apocalypse's stamp on all sorts of products starting in June.

…and all with the reassuring presence of a six-foot-tall EVA Unit 01
statue.

And the corporate synergy doesn’t stop there, oh no. Pacific League
Baseball also offering a t-shirt juxtaposes those two lovely ladies, Asuka and
Rei, with the logos of six of their teams.

It doesn’t sound so far off from all
those T’s with Taz wearing a Raiders jersey, and the sight of a springy EVA unit
running to catch a baseball isn’t actually too hard to picture… but still…this
is a series centered on emotionally-damaged head-cases. This sort of happy-go-go cross-promotion for it is hilarious.

yeah...I am not sure I would call the show nihilistic at least the end of the series is not...but yeah EVERY one in the show is a headcase...that is kind of the point. So yes this is hella odd...but then this is japan where you can take your fictional digital girlfriend on a real date so...pretty much anything they do has stopped shocking me at this point...

@Eyz
ONE PIECE actually holds that title. People who I've known who go to Japan say they are shocked how much ONE PIECE merchandise you see in every store. In fact, a mall in Japan is opening a store dedicated to all OP stuff.@zaldar
Even the creator of the series was shocked by it's popularity. He's even called the cast messed up.